Berne, Eric M.D.
What do You Say After You Say Hello
New York: Bantam Books 1972. pp.166-182 on adolescence.
Dickens, Charles
The Tale of Two Cities
New York: New Amsterdam Library 1960.
Elwood, Ann and Carol Madigan
Brainstorms & Thunderbolts “
How Creative Genius Works” New York: MacMillan Co. 1983.
This non-fiction book is for anyone who has ever felt a creative urge and wanted to spur it on. It’s an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at creative genius at work in more than a 100 stories of History’s most inventive thinkers how they were inspired and how their ideas took shape. These remarkable and often funny tales make one thing clear: inspiration can come at any time and in any form. For instance, we see how inventive men and women of history primed their muses to move them. Mark Twain smoked a box of cigars. It’s the ideal springboard for anyone who ever wanted to trigger his own creativity and for anyone who has ever asked, “How did that ever happen?”
Erikson, Erik
Identity “
Youth and Crisis” New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1968.
Erikson, Erik
Identity and the Life Cycle
New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1980.
Fruman, Norman and Marvin Laser
Studies in J.D. Salinger “
Reviews, Essays and Critiques” New York: The Odyssey Press 1963.
Salinger
, Henry Grumwald ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
Henry Grumwald introduces the reader to Mr. Salinger in an account of his work, indicating the development of his extraordinary style and mood, as well as his creation of characters so precisely and hauntingly fashioned. This portrait is the work of many. As a whole it presents this controversial writer in the round.
Marsden, Malcolm
If You Really Want to Know: A Catcher Casebook
Chicago: Scott, Foresman, & Co. 1963.
Rikhoff, Jean
Rites of Passage
New York: The Viking Press 1966.
The title implies a comment on modern American life. Today no stylized rites in the manner of the older civilizations, no formal tests of stamina and self-reliance mark a child’s passage into maturity. Modern initiations into adulthood are unannounced trials in an uncharted passage, often with no perceptible goal ahead. The major characters of this book are third generation Timbles who even in their middle years in the 60’s have not yet severed the strangulating ties of family dependency. They are unable to evaluate themselves or their future.
